Howard Janssen is
a litigator who has tried over 150 lawsuits to both judges and juries. As a civil trial attorney, he has had extensive jury and court trial experience in a broad range of matters involving complex commercial litigation, wrongful
termination, sexual harassment, racial discrimination, product liability, patents, employment, and insurance bad faith. He has also participated as an arbitrator in complex business cases and acted as a mediator in a wide variety
of matters, in both federal and State court.
His clients have included corporations, public entities and individuals. He also is often called upon to advise and counsel corporations and individuals on highly sensitive internal
investigations including employment issues and employees suspected of criminal activity.
Mr. Janssen's experience has included representing plaintiff corporations in complex multi-million dollar commercial matters involving
industrial fraud and misrepresentation. By comparison, he has been co-counsel in litigation involving hundreds of plaintiffs who had been defrauded. As national trial counsel for a major manufacturer of all terrain vehicles, Mr.
Janssen has coordinated litigation and tried personal injury cases throughout the United States. He has also represented a pharmaceutical manufacturer as regional trial counsel for all litigation, for a specific drug, west of the
Mississippi. Recently he was lead trial counsel in California for a manufacturer's recall of a medical device.
Mr. Janssen is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and past president and founding member of
the Earl Warren American Inn of Court. Mr. Janssen will be inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers in the fall of 2003. He has served as a member of the faculty of National Institute of Trial Advocacy and on the board
of Hastings Law Center for Trial and Appellate Advocacy. As a teacher, he has participated in dozens of trial advocacy programs for lawyers throughout the United States. He was also an associate professor of law teaching trial
advocacy at Hastings College of the Law from 1980 through 1989.
He began his legal career with the Alameda County District Attorney's Office, and developed one of the first victim/witness programs in the United States. He
graduated from Hastings College of the Law, University of California, J.D., 1969 and received a B.A. Degree from the University of California at Davis, in 1966.
He is also a member of the Litigation Sections of the State Bar of
California. He is a member of the Contra Costa County Bar Association as well as the Alameda County Bar Association.
